Tenopir Carol, King Donald W, Bush Amy
School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2004 Apr;92(2):233-41.
The objectives are to determine how medical faculty members use scholarly journals, whether print or electronic journals are read more, whether there is a pattern among types of users, and what similarities and differences there are between the use of journals by medical faculty and faculty in other disciplines.
Medical faculty of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) multi-campus system were surveyed, and their responses estimated using critical incident technique to characterize the different aspects of their use of print and electronic journals.
Medical faculty read a great deal, especially compared to scientists. The most frequently reported principal purpose of reading is to support their primary research (30% of reading). The majority of reading comes from recently published articles, mostly from personal subscriptions. Medical faculty continue to rely on print journals (approximately 70% of readings) versus electronic journals. Age of faculty does not appear to influence the choice of print or electronic format. Medical faculty read more articles than others on average and need information digested and verified in a way to save them time. Convenience and currency are highly valued attributes.
It can be asserted that librarians and publishers must find ways to provide the attributes of convenience and currency and match the portability of personal subscriptions in an electronic journal format for medical faculty.
目标是确定医学教员如何使用学术期刊，纸质期刊和电子期刊哪种阅读量更大，各类用户之间是否存在某种模式，以及医学教员与其他学科教员在期刊使用方面有哪些异同。
对田纳西大学健康科学中心（UTHSC）多校区系统的医学教员进行了调查，并采用关键事件技术对他们使用纸质期刊和电子期刊的不同方面进行了评估。
医学教员阅读量很大，尤其是与科学家相比。最常报告的阅读主要目的是支持他们的主要研究（占阅读量的30%）。大部分阅读来自最近发表的文章，大多是通过个人订阅。医学教员仍然更依赖纸质期刊（约占阅读量的70%）而非电子期刊。教员的年龄似乎并不影响对纸质或电子格式的选择。医学教员平均阅读的文章比其他人更多，并且需要以节省他们时间的方式对信息进行消化和核实。便利性和时效性是非常重要的属性。
可以断言，图书馆员和出版商必须找到方法，以电子期刊格式提供便利性和时效性等属性，并匹配个人订阅的便携性，以满足医学教员的需求。
